Before I Allowed
Anything Further To Be Done, However, I Had The
Patch Of Rushes Thoroughly Beaten Out:
But as
no traces of the lionesses could be found, we
commenced to skin my fine trophy.
When this
was about half done, I decided to let Mahina
finish the operation, while I went on ahead to
try my luck either with more lions or with any
other game that might come my way. I
followed up the river almost to its source, but no
more lions crossed my path. Once indeed I
felt convinced that I saw one, and gave chase
to it with all my might as it rushed through
the long grass: but a nearer view showed me
nothing more than a huge wart-hog. As I
wanted the tusks, which I noticed were very fine
ones, I fired but only badly hipped him: so I
ran up as fast as I could and at ten yards
fired again. This time I missed him entirely,
and was puzzled to account for my failure until
I looked at my back sight and found that by
some accident it had got raised and that I had
the 200-yards sight up. On rectifying this,
another shot quickly put the wounded animal
out of pain.
Still my day's sport was not yet over. While
rambling back through the trees I caught sight
of a graceful-looking antelope in the distance,
and on cautiously approaching closer saw that
it was an impala. My stalk was crowned with
success, the beautiful animal being bagged
without much trouble; and on reaching my prize I
was delighted to find that its horns were much
above the average.
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